What questions do patients with curable prostate cancer want answered?

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 7-19

  Feldman Stewart, Deb ^a,b,c   Brundage, Michael D ^a,b   Hayter, Charles ^a,b   Groome, Patti ^a,b   Nickel, J Curtis ^a,b   Downes, Heather ^a,b   Mackillop, William J ^a,b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Kingston Children's Hospital   (Canada)

^c KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Information needs; Informed consent; Patient education; Patient participation; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; DECISION MAKING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PROSTATE CANCER; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 0033987846     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X0002000102     Document Type: Article

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